A new study has found that a brain region critical to speech and language ballooned after humans split from chimpanzees, which explains why
humans can talk and chimps can't. Named after French physician, Pierre Paul Broca, who identified the region

Sarah Palin, the wolf-killing former Republican VP candidate, resigned as governor of Alaska yesterday.
It heartens me that Palin felt the need to address animal issues in her speech on Sunday. It isn't often that a major, national candidate faces

The only thing Sarah Palin said in her speech at the Republican National Convention that (allegedly) wasn't scripted was that she's a pit bull wearing lipstick. What an insult to pit bulls! Because they're often raised to be violent, they have an un

The use of vocalizations, such as grunts, songs or barks, is extremely common throughout the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, humans are the only species in which these vocalizations have attained the sophistication and communicative effectiveness of speech.